Bed-and-breakfast Accommodation

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will issue further guidance to local authorities on the use of their powers under the Housing and Public Health Acts to enforce adequate standards in commercial bed-and-breakfast accommodation used by homeless people, in view of the evidence of unsatisfactory conditions in this form of accommodation.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has Ito issue guidance to local authorities on the use of their powers to enforce adequate standards in commercial bed-and-breakfast accommodation used by homeless people.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will estimate the numbers of people
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currently placed in temporary accommodation in bed-and-breakfast hotels and similar establishments by local authorities.

At the end of June 1983, the latest date for which information is currently available, 2,460 households in England were living in bed-and-breakfast accommodation, having been placed there by local authorities as homeless.